Craft Prospect

Enabling mission designers to make informed decisions. Using machine learning to optimise onboard operations. Augmenting QKD networks with nanosatellites.

• The Responsive Operations for Key Services (ROKS) mission will demonstrate technologies for future secure telecommunication systems using Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and supported by artificial intelligence. This discovery phase will progress the flight payload and ground test systems to Critical Design Review (CDR), before a final build and delivery to demonstrate in-orbit operation by 2022. To date the work has developed the technology basis for miniaturized space-ready QKD systems and has developed service opportunities with multinational finance, telecommunication and data providers for securing their networks.
• Will lead the €12m European Space Agency - ESA OS2 VOLT mission.
• Enhancement of Satellite Free-Space Laser Communication Systems Using Machine Learning Methods, SmallSat 2023.
• XCAM is developing a variant of their Nuscis electronics for the context imager in Craft Prospect’s Salient project. In Salient, Craft Prospect will be using their on-board processing algorithms in a data processing module to perform autonomous detection and decision making for spacecraft operations based on image data provided by XCAM’s Nuscis system, 2024-04-01.

• ROKS (Responsive Operations and Key Services, QUARC-ROKS)
• OPS-SAT VOLT (Versatile Optical Laboratory for Telecommunications)